Opel & Batt Headline Epperson's My Deah, Oct. 13-Nov. 12

Nancy Opel and Bryan Batt will headline My Deah, John Epperson's comic update of Euripides' Medea set in the Deep South.  The show will be presented by the Abingdon Theatre Company from October 13th through November 12th, with opening night set for October 25th.

Tony-nominee Opel (Fiddler on the Roof, Urinetown) and Batt (La Cage aux Folles, Beauty and the Beast) previously starred in an April reading of the play at the Abingdon.  Directed by Mark Waldrop, they will perform alongside Lori Gardner, Geoffrey Malloy, Jay Rogers, and Kevin Townley.

My Deah "spotlights Gator Hedgepeth, a former Mississippi football star, and his plans to abandon his wife, My Deah – an ex-beauty queen from Louisiana with a penchant for a gossip-filled bridge game – to marry Simplicity Bullard, the daughter of the corrupt, one-armed Governor Bullard. When My Deah confronts her card-dealing friends (and Governor Bullard) and she lays out her plans for revenge . . . y'all just might could die laughin'!," state press notes on the play, which is written by the playwright/performer whose alter ego is Lypsinka.

The Abingdon will also present James Armstrong's political farce Foggy Bottom from September 2nd through 24th.  Roy Urbinati directs the play.  "A philandering mid-level State Department bureaucrat, pretending to be the Assistant Secretary of State, promises one green card to three illegal aliens, all beautiful young women. When the three women show up at his office on the same night to cash in on his promise, farcical hilarity ensues…and then a fourth woman arrives, with an entirely different plan in store for him."

Visit www.abingdontheatre.org for tickets and more information.